Gibbings, Robert (1889–1958)

Irish travel writer and artist. He illustrated his travel books with his own wood engravings. After Blue Angels and White Whales 1938, he wrote the successful Sweet Thames Run Softly 1940 and Lovely is the Lee 1945. The South Seas provided the material for Over the Reefs 1948, while he returned to more familiar territory with Sweet Cork of Thee 1951.

For a time he was proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press, where he employed, among others, David Jones and Eric Gill. He then became a lecturer in typography at Reading University.